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A rather pessimistic thread I know, but after reading an interview with the guitarist from The Futureheads I think their days are numbered.. self-releasing their new album? lack of direction? saying their old album sounded like a bad Fleetwood Mac?

how many bands who had a launch pad of hype for their debut albums in 06 & 07 fall off the radar and then split.
07 seemed to be the year that good bands split ycni:milo, coopers, HIFH (on a hiatus - i think). Sadly good bands such as these have trouble surviving in today's musical climate - just not fair!

The new single has just been B-listed on Radio 1, which lumps it in with some very famous bands who do pretty well for themselves. They weren't short of label offers, the fact they're doing it their own way for maximum profit (and this b-listing) points at them potentially having their best year yet.

have my bet. There's not really anywhere else they can go, seeing as they've spent their entire career down a 1-idea cul-de-sac as it is. Same with most indie bands, in time-honoured tradition.

Idlewild almost certainly won't, they'd have long since packed it in by now if they were only in it for the Big Success (and they clearly never were in the first place). Same with SFA and Bloc Party. Not sure about Ash, you get the feeling even they don't know what they're doing these days. Couldn't care less about Foals.

I see as a definite split. I remember them saying they wanted to release some form of new music every year they were together as a band, but their last output was in the middle of '05. last year I said to a friend "if Franz Ferdinand don't release an album this year, they'll probably split soon". now, while album three is hovering around, it's still doesn't seem to be finished and the tracks suspected to be on it have been doing the rounds for a little while, so even when the album does come out, it's not even totally new stuff. I also read a review where Paul Thomson seemed to like being in his new band, Correcto, a whole lot more: he said he preferred to make an album in a couple of weeks with Correcto, than a couple of years with Franz. so, yeah, Franz.

I'm also surprised no one has said Panic at the Disco. they've said that they have scrapped about two albums worth of material, then changed there name and are acting pretty erratic. I can see them departing pretty soon.